(Harmonic Nebula)
"My King, permission to speak Sire?" The Captain of Eraklyon's guards said warily.
"Permission granted, Captain Dosian," The broad shouldered King replied.
"Harmonic Nebula has relinquished all power to us, Your Highness." Dosian remarked and then went on slowly. "We have captured the noble's we could find, though I regret to report that the King is no-where to be found. But we happened upon a pretty little trinket that should make up for it three times over."
Sky gave a deep guttural laugh and responded. "Sounds to me that this is more then a pretty trinket, Dosian; I shall rather enjoy this captive. Bring it forward."
"Of course my liege," Captain Dosian stated, a laugh of his own then accompanied the King's. With that Dosian marched off in the direction of the temporary prisons; in search of the captive.
He walked on for miles until he finally spotted the blue flag flapping over the stables that they called the prison.
"Where is the recently acquired princess, Sergeant Calwieght?" Captain Dosian said, his voice just loud enough to be heard over the sounds of clanking chains.
The Sergeant was about to open his mouth in the beginning of a word; but was cut off as the person he was looking for called out in a very unseemly manor. "Yo! Dork for brains. I'm over here!" The princess called out, "do your own dirty work and get me yo'h self!"
"Oh, hoh, bbuurrnn!" Dosian called out over the racket and walked over to the cell holding the princess. "You know my sweet..." He continued, reaching through the bars to run a finger under her chin. "...I'd watch who I insulted if I were you, caus' one day. You're gonna regret talking to me thus, when I'm tanning 'Ur skinny little hide for a new pair of boots!"
"You aint much of a threat yourself. Walking in here unarmed an' all, this stuff you're doing is plain wack!" The incarcerated person shouted.
With that Dosian opened the cell, the door slamming on the black granite wall next to it.
He grabbed the captive by the arm. The Princess let out a tiny scream as his gnarled fingernails dug deep into her milk white flesh.
"Come on! And don't make a scene, or I might do something that I won't regret."
"Why should I be afraid of you? Ya two faced playa' hater!" She snapped.
"You insult me, my little wench." He said calmly and led her towards the King that now stood on the steps that once led to a beautiful palace.
He looked down, his head shielded by the midnight black cloak.
"Well, Princess Musa, I would of expected more of a fight from you and you're planet." The King said, paused and continued. "I guess I was too soon to judge your power and rank." The King then let the hood fall back from his head.
Musa stood there; mouth gapping dumbly for many a second. Then with a roar of outrage she hurtled forward towards Sky, at least that was the general idea until her magically reinforced restraints pulled taught and her arms nearly pulled out of their sockets.
She did not give up though, for she still had her voice. "You traitor! How could you? You've betrayed us all, Bloom especially..." She stopped as a thought hit her. "How could you? Have you destroyed her and her planet already? She loved you Sky! We all did, we all still do!"
"Ha! How could you people still love me! I've destroyed half of your planets!" He replied sarcastically.
"Because there is no possible way that a dude like you would do this on a whim! Not unless he was some how otherwise enticed... No matter what you do to us, you can't break our loyalty to you, but right now, I know with all o' my heart that Bloom is out there right now… Crying her eyes out cause she thinks you've gone loony! Which rightly you have, but that's not the point." Musa said and then paused for breath.
"Yeah right, she never mattered to me... She was just another ploy in my plot." Sky remarked and smirked.
"I'll believe it when I see it, but you know better then me. That if she new you are so obviously under a spell, she would do anything and everything in her power to save you. Because she loves you, whether or not you or she knows it right now!" Musa cried.
The King made a grim face at that and then turned to Dosian. "Take her out of my sight, put her with the rest of the captives." He said to the awaiting Captain.
Dosian yanked on her chains and they turned around to walk towards the prisons again. Musa's head hung low with grief and fear as they walked slowly, the links dragging painfully on her wrists, waist, and ankles.
"Oh, and Dosian, make sure she doesn't get anything to eat tonight. It needs to learn its place."
"Yes sire!" Dosian yelled over his shoulder and kept on walking, captive in tow.
(Vitalion)
"I respect you, and all of the decisions you make Bloom. You know that," Julian said, his dark brown eyes solemn.
"I know Julian, how could I forget, it's hard to remember sometimes if Sky ever gave me as much respect as you do." Bloom remarked, her voice coming out as if she wasn't the one speaking, but a small remembrance of her.
Do I deserve his trust?
Do I deserve the love that he gives me day after day?
Do I deserve the feeling of safety that comes only when I'm in his presence? Bloom thought, the visions of past coming back once again to haunt her.
"I respect your decisions," he repeated. "But I can't help but think that this choice of yours is guided more by a broken heart then wisdom. Can you stand by and let these innocent people suffer? It's not right... You must save them... I love you and you know it... I would never leave your side, even in the face of danger. I wish I could do something to make you release the past, I wonder sometimes if my love is enough for you...Or if you're never going to be able to let yourself free of what is no longer there... Tell me Bloom, do you really love me? Or that distant past that you cannot, will not, and never will touch again?"
Does he deserve the danger, and fear that comes of being in love with one such as yourself? Said the part of her mind that constantly tormented her. No, he doesn't deserve it, but nor does he care because he knows as long as you're there. He'll be safe, and his heart will never break...Only because of what you've been through, only because of what Sky did to you, did you meet him; and once again feel some resemblance of peace and happiness. Let it go. There was a long pause as those words passed through her head, but as it ended, his words penetrated the thick guard she had had on her thoughts.
She looked up at him from her perch on the tower's only window seat. As her gaze met his he saw that her eyes had turned a navy blue with the fear of the things that haunted her every day, and every night, in dreams... nightmares that would not end.
"Bloom..." Julian whispered, attempting to apologize, but being cut off as she rose and started talking in a near silent voice.
"No... Don't apologize, I needed to hear that..."
"Bloom..." He said again, thinking to apologize even though she had said not to.
She shook her head with that and got up to take a few steps closer to him. "I'm trying to put Sky behind me, I truly am, but you can have no idea what it's like to have your heart shattered..."
"I can, and do, Bloom, because right now you're ripping it apart slowly but surely... Seeing you like this is... is... is horrible. You don't deserve what you're going through." He said haltingly.
"I'm sorry."
He nodded his head but couldn't help but asking his question again. "Do you really love me? Or do you love the past?"
She sighed, seeing that she had done some unwanted damage; and that some-how she had to prove her love to him.
You know what he needs... Her conscience said.
With that she walked over to him and put a finger under his chin to lift his face up so his eyes would look into hers.
"You may be a prince, Julian... But you are the king of my heart. Don't forget that... I've had a life more difficult then anyone rightfully deserves, and it's gonna keep getting more difficult, it just keeps getting harder and harder to deal with it." She replied.
"What can I do to make it better?" He said.
"Nothing, but love me... and never leave me... I do love you... No matter how distant I can be at times... I love you." With that she bent her head up a little bit and let her lips meet his... In a kiss of such pure innocence; there was absolutely no way in the world that it could have been faked.
(Eraklyon)
"Dosian!" The King called.
The cry was followed by a rushing of footsteps and the door bursting open, with a medium sized, black haired captain Dosian standing on the opposite side.
"Yes Your Highness!" He replied.
"I want your advice on something... come here." Sky replied in an interesting tone.
"It would be an honor sire." He remarked and then walked over to stand in front of the map that the King was surveying.
"Which planet should we destroy next?" The King said in a menacing tone.
"Lets go Digital..." Replied Dosian…
Thanks to those of you who went back and looked at the redone of chapter one!
-Crystal Hauntress